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Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
Road Work Bob
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Date: July 21, 2014 04:19PM
Get yer bids in!...due 7/21/14
HITT Contracting is soliciting Select Subcontractor and Vendor bids to provide pricing for a negotiated project to provide new storm pipe and structures; curb, gutter and concrete medians; road widening and asphalt mill/overlay; and traffic signage and signal. Project is set to start in August 2014 and be completed NLT June 1st, 2015.
Project Scope Includes:
- Clearing and grubbing of vegetation
- Erosion Controls
- 3rd party utility locating
- Asphalt and concrete saw cutting/removal.
- Excavation, grading and compaction
- Lane widening and asphalt trail subbase
- Storm sewer pipe and structures (15” pipe)
- Concrete curb and gutter
- Concrete medians, sidewalks, handicap ramps
- Stone/aggregate subbase
- Asphalt mill and overlay and new lane full-depth asphalt install
- VDOT Traffic Controls
- Lane marking
- Traffic signal at intersection
- Road lighting conduit install (lights and poles by others)
- VDOT Signage
Schedule: VDOT hours. 9:00AM – 4:00 PM. 6-month schedule. Phasing depending on winter months. Start Late-August.
https://hitt-gc.box.com/s/8zof79wnrfajbgic5ijw
HITT Contracting is soliciting Select Subcontractor and Vendor bids to provide pricing for a negotiated project to provide new storm pipe and structures; curb, gutter and concrete medians; road widening and asphalt mill/overlay; and traffic signage and signal. Project is set to start in August 2014 and be completed NLT June 1st, 2015.
Project Scope Includes:
- Clearing and grubbing of vegetation
- Erosion Controls
- 3rd party utility locating
- Asphalt and concrete saw cutting/removal.
- Excavation, grading and compaction
- Lane widening and asphalt trail subbase
- Storm sewer pipe and structures (15” pipe)
- Concrete curb and gutter
- Concrete medians, sidewalks, handicap ramps
- Stone/aggregate subbase
- Asphalt mill and overlay and new lane full-depth asphalt install
- VDOT Traffic Controls
- Lane marking
- Traffic signal at intersection
- Road lighting conduit install (lights and poles by others)
- VDOT Signage
Schedule: VDOT hours. 9:00AM – 4:00 PM. 6-month schedule. Phasing depending on winter months. Start Late-August.
https://hitt-gc.box.com/s/8zof79wnrfajbgic5ijw
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
Local Contractor
()
Date: July 21, 2014 04:20PM
Even cheaper if you hire illegals and then murder them at the end of the job to avoid paying them. Just sayin'.
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
University Mall
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Date: July 21, 2014 04:39PM
We were promised a grade-separated intersection. What happened?
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
Wendy's?
()
Date: July 21, 2014 05:49PM
Will the new Wendy's survive?
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
UGH!
()
Date: July 22, 2014 06:57AM
I see new traffic jams coming.
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
vdot
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Date: July 22, 2014 10:38AM
University Mall Wrote:
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> We were promised a grade-separated intersection.
> What happened?
Sorry, we needed the money to pay the extremely generous union retirement benefits for vdot employees who put in 10 years' time.
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> We were promised a grade-separated intersection.
> What happened?
Sorry, we needed the money to pay the extremely generous union retirement benefits for vdot employees who put in 10 years' time.
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
really?
()
Date: July 22, 2014 03:26PM
They need to make it an overpass.
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
Wendy Rodriquez
()
Date: July 22, 2014 06:04PM
Will the Wendy's have any employees who speak English?
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
Local resident
()
Date: July 26, 2014 01:34AM
This is work that combined with the GMU east/west campus bypass (road under 123 nearing completion that allows access to main campus from west of the 123/Braddock interchange) and the recent widening/improvements at Roanoke River/University mall entrances, will create two left turn lanes in each direction, and hopefully alleviate the backups that occur primarily because of people headed to GMU. As it is, the traffic counts at the intersection rank it 178th in the county in traffic and congestion, so its the peak demand traffic to GMU at patriot center events and GMU arrivals/departures that create episodic jams. Otherwise, there is no need to build a $225 Million overpass when there are 177 intersections in the county (plus I-66) that are better uses of taxpayer funds.
Re: Braddock & 123 Intersection Work is coming
Posted by:
Real Old Guy
()
Date: July 26, 2014 02:23AM
Local resident Wrote:
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> Otherwise, there is no need to build a $225
> Million overpass when there are 177 intersections
> in the county (plus I-66) that are better uses of
> taxpayer funds.
The problem with this thinking is that we build something to be "adequate" for today and then it becomes obsolete before its expected time.
Used to be a time when we over-engineered for the future. Saves money in the long run and serves for many, many years. Think I-295 around the East side of Richmond, Dulles Airport in the 1970s, the first thirty years of the beltway, the high schools of the 1960s. Some called them "white elephants" at the time, but the projects outlived many of the naysayers.
Good enough isn't.
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> Otherwise, there is no need to build a $225
> Million overpass when there are 177 intersections
> in the county (plus I-66) that are better uses of
> taxpayer funds.
The problem with this thinking is that we build something to be "adequate" for today and then it becomes obsolete before its expected time.
Used to be a time when we over-engineered for the future. Saves money in the long run and serves for many, many years. Think I-295 around the East side of Richmond, Dulles Airport in the 1970s, the first thirty years of the beltway, the high schools of the 1960s. Some called them "white elephants" at the time, but the projects outlived many of the naysayers.
Good enough isn't.